>Bet you're fun at fireworks parties.
Yeah, he's *that* guy
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Between 2015 and 2017, MPS awarded its service integration and management to Atos, network services to BT, data centres services to Keysource, and hosting and end-user services to DXC.
Sounds like a recipe for Blame Storming...
The Met probably need some help to make sense of it from 221B Baker Street's finest -->
On the other hand, if you (think) you know how to make Access databases, then knowing that you'd be waiting for 18 months for something you can knock up in a day or so would be very frustrating...
I've had to clear up the mess of scientists' crashed Access DBs before, I'm not seriously advocating the above, just empathising...
And who can forget the wonderful (NSFW) advice on uninstalling McAfee antivirus
The only compelling reason I have to upgrade my 6 year old PC is that I'm out of PCI-E slots and SATA3 connections. At some point I'll get around to it, but until I need to plug something else in then I have no urgent reason to do it.
I've swapped all the discs and have a mirror for my photos so I can be reasonably confident I won't have to "test my backups" soon.
They've also got few friends in the media.
It'd be quite easy for Google to trash a media outlet if it so chose; just lower it in search results, Google News etc. Look at the Facebook battle in Australia at the moment for an ongoing Big Tech Vs media battle..